#Burning gay flag a hate crime tv#
TV programs like the “Dukes of Hazard” have now been pulled off the air due to the image of the flag on the famous car. Apple began removing all civil war games with Confederate flag symbols. Stores are now refusing to sell Confederate flag merchandise to the general public. For decades, it has been determined that flag-burning is a First Amendment right regardless of whether or not we agree or disagree with burning the flag, or a flag that is reflective of this nation-state’s history.ĭuring the past 2 weeks, there have been irrational mob-like calls for digging up Confederate generals’ bodies out of a park in Memphis Tennessee.There have been irrational demands to have street names changed.
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For the past few weeks and even month, I have seen people calling to burn the Confederate battle flag and to burn the United States’ flag. “This story is interesting for many different reasons. Gabriel Brown raises some interesting points. This guy is an asshole, but I wonder if the charges would have been levied if this had involved an American flag, Confederate flag, or, lol, a Swastika flag. But charges of felony arson, which is usually applied to the destruction of buildings for purposes of revenge or insurance fraud, and hate crime, given no violence or threat of violence, appears to be present seems a bit excessive. So he’s at least guilty of trespassing, theft, and destruction of property. He apparently stole the flag from neighbors.
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On one hand, it looks like this guy was doing more than merely burning a flag that he happened to own.